True to form I managed to blow a big stack on 3 draws (I had 28k after level 2) and was soon watching the Blondepoker team doing the updates. I realise now why I play poker, not to win, but to say "all-in" and hit my 8 outer every once in a while. That gives me the rush, and why I'll never be a very good player. I think I'm gonna invent "tag team poker" at DTD, when I can build a stack of chips and then give them to Action Jack to win the tourney!
If I had £25 for every person who had asked me, "when is the club opening", I would have got my £1500 buy-in back at Walsall. It seems like people expect me to wave a magic wand and refurbish 20,00sq ft of empty space in a few weeks. My standard answer is, "its a big job, I think late 2006, I'm doing my best", and the questioner gives me a look that says "pull your finger out, Yong, thats a long time away!".
I had a really cushy life before DTD came along, bit of poker, travel and the odd visit to one of my offices to show my face. Malcolm Harwood remarked that "I had taken a bit more on than I originally thought" - he's damn right. You see when I was younger I could do more stuff, needed less sleep and had a lot more drive. I also did severley underestimate the work need to refurbish the premises, recruit 60 staff, put a management team in place, deal with legals (which are a minefield) and accounting and set up an online poker site.
I did get the original diamond $6m classic comment at Walsall though, "You don't need a licence to have a poker club, a mate of mine knows all about it". I just replied, "I wish I'd known that before, cheers". No energy left to respond to that old classic I'm afraid. I'm just feeling a bit drained at the moment, I guess.
Anyway, onwards and upwards, we have the final prices and proposals from the online poker sites. We have a web site 70% complete. We have some good staff who have agreed to join. We have a full project team recruited. We have 3 designers working on the layout of the club. We have have 3 contractors pricing up the fit out. We have bank accounts set up and Ltd companies registered. We have the applications into the Gaming Board. We have all our guns loaded and ready to fire at the right times, hopefully.
